Models Comparison To Assess Emerging Of Low Income Housing In Colombo Suburbs

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No.	Variable labels	Description and encodings	Type	Definition of Variables	Variables Applied in the Models
1	HS	Household size	Continuous	Non-stable houses have fewer family members than stable houses	Socio-Economic
2	HI	Household income	Continuous	Non-stable houses have lower income than stable houses	Socio-Economic
3	HHEL	Education level of head of household: 1= up to Primary, 2= up to O/L and 3= above O/L	Categorical	Non-stable householders have less education than stable householders	Socio-Economic
4	SE	Settlement year	Continuous	Owners of non-stable houses have settled more recently than owners of stable houses	Socio-Economic
5	IMF	Immigration from	Continuous	Non-stable householders have migrated into low lands from more distant places than stable householders	Socio-Economic
6	SKJ	Skill level of jobs: Dummy coded 0= No, 1= Yes	Categorical-Dummy	Owners of non-stable houses perform fewer skilled jobs than owners of stable houses	Socio-Economic
7	VA	Ownership of vehicles: Dummy coded 0= No, 1= Yes	Categorical-Dummy	Non-stable householders own fewer motor vehicles than Stable householders	Socio-Economic
8	HHA	Household assets	Continuous	Non-stable householders possess lower value of assets than stable householders	Socio-Economic
9	MU	Material utilised for conversion of land and housing (in cubic meters)	Continuous	Non-stable householders have used less material for land filling than stable householders	Behaviour
10	TS	Attitude about technology, skills and adaptation	Categorical	Owners of non-stable houses have used less technology and skills in constructing their houses than owners of stable houses	Behaviour
11	LT	Living time per week in the house	Continuous	Owners of non-stable houses spend fewer number of hours in their houses than owners of stable houses	Behaviour
12	SDD	Addictive habits of inhabitants such as smoking, drinking and drugs usage		Addictive habits like smoking, drinking and drugs usage is much higher among owners of non-stable houses than owners of stable houses	Behaviour
13	PG	Permanent plants present in a plot	Continuous	Owners of non-stable houses have fewer large plants in their plots than owners of stable houses	Behaviour
14	PPP	Behaviour relating to participatory approach		Owners of non-stable houses are less involved in activities of a participatory nature than owners of stable houses	Behaviour
15	LLP	Low land plants availability in a plot		Non-stable housing plots have more low land related plants than stable houses	Geo-spatial
16	GWS	Ground water surface level in a plot	Continuous	Non-stable housing plots have higher ground water surface level than stable houses	Geo-spatial
17	FL	Flood level in a plot	Continuous	Non-stable housing plots are affected by higher flood levels than stable houses	Geo-spatial
18	DSO	Distance to environmentally sensitive objects from the plot	Continuous	Non-stable houses are much closer to environmentally sensitive objects than stable houses	Geo-spatial
19	RWR	Number of days rain water remains in a plot	Continuous	Non-stable housing plots suffer more days of water stagnation after rains than stable houses	Geo-spatial

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